D-Day - The Soldiers' Story by Giles Milton
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
'Vivid, graphic and moving' Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 'It has a wonderful immediacy and vitality - living history in every sense' Anthony Horowitz 'Fantastic' Dan Snow 'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis 'Stirring and unsettling i ...Show more
The Forsyte Saga Volume 2 by John Galsworthy
$33.00 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell saves a woman's reputation. Brittany conjures ancient c ...Show more
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History by Andrew Roberts
$55.00 AUD
Category: War
Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands, Andrew Roberts presents us with a bracingly honest and insightful look at nine major figures in modern history- Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, George C. Marshall, Charles de Gaull ...Show more
The Walls Have Ears - The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II (HB) by Helen Fry
$48.00 AUD
Category: War
A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secretsAt the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation: German priso ...Show more
Official Secrets: The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War (FTI) by Marcia Mitchell; Thomas Mitchell
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, MATT SMITH, RALPH FIENNES AND MATTHEW GOODE FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn her world upside down. Th ...Show more
Chastise - The Dambusters Story 1943 (HB) by Max Hastings
$60.00 AUD
Category: War
A brand new history of the Dambusters raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian, Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron on the night of 16/17 May 1943, was an epic that has passed into Britain' ...Show more
Chastise: The Dambusters 1943 by Max Hastings
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
A brand new history of the Dambusters raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian, Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron on the night of 16/17 May 1943, was an epic that has passed into Britain' ...Show more
Where Soldiers Lie: The Quest to Find Australia's Missing War Dead (HB) by Ian McPhedran
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
What drives veterans, military experts and forensic investigators to dedicate years to search for and identify the remains of fallen warriors? What does it mean to the families of the dead to be able to lay them to rest? Over thirty five thousand Australian soldiers and airmen are still listed as Missin ...Show more
First Light: Original Edition by Geoffrey Wellum
$23.00 AUD
Category: War | Series: The\Centenary Collection
In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a series of six classic books highlighting the skill, heroism esprit de corps that have characterised the Royal Air Force throughou ...Show more
Hitler's Great Gamble - Operation Barbarossa, the Eastern Front, and Germany's Defeat in World War II by James Ellman
$63.00 AUD
Category: War
On June 22, 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the turning points of World War II. Within six months, the invasion bogged down on the outskirts of Moscow, and the Eastern Front proved to be the decisive theater in the defeat of the Third Reich. Ever since, most histori ...Show more
Turning Point: The Battle for Milne Bay 1942 - Japan's first land defeat in World War II by Michael Veitch
$33.00 AUD
Category: War | Series: Aust soldiers in the Milne Campaign of 1942
Told for the first time, this is the epic story of the Milne Bay campaign of 1942 - which saw Japanese land forces suffer their first defeat of the war - and has properly been called the RAAF's forgotten finest hour. September 1942 marked the high-point of Axis conquest in World War II. In the Pacific, ...Show more